Word: dress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throughout Italy last week, many another sharp female tongue cut at strait-laced Minister of the Interior Scelba, and his month-old campaign for reform in dress. On city streets and sunlit strands, Scelba's conscientious cops cracked down on bra-top dresses and bathing suits. At Capri and the Lido, dazzling diapered beauties gazed nervously over their strapless shoulders, while the Socialist Avanti, affecting to hear the rustle of churchly robes behind the government's order, cried: "The first arrested will go down in history as martyrs...
Rumania's Amazonian Foreign Minister Ana Pauker, wearing a New Look dress of white-flowered blue silk, with a grey lizard handbag, rose and in stumbling Russian said she had always cherished that language as her mother tongue. She had to be prompted by an assistant when she forgot the Russian word for "love."* At the end she mopped her brow in obvious relief. After these satellite tributes, English was voted down 7-3. (Next day the Bulgarians, Hungarians and Yugoslavs switched from Russian to French for their speeches...
...students come from low-income homes and many have to leave before graduation, Campbell concentrates on teaching every boy & girl some employable skill in the first half year. In the auto-shop course, a boy learns to grease a car; in the dressmaking course, a girl learns to cut dress parts. Students who stay become skilled craftsmen: some of Dunbar's sheet-metal graduates make $125 a week...
...first to sniff the air. Last winter a congressional Banking & Currency subcommittee looked into Lustron's deals and called for a full-dress investigation. To help launch the company, the subcommittee found, RFC had made the loan, although it had never been approved by the RFC's examiners, as is customary. An earlier loan for $32 to $52 million had been blocked by onetime RFC Director George Allen...
...Blimey. Knight's plans are grandiose. Technicolor is supplying him with 800,000 feet of negative, 19 specially adapted cameras, 60 specially trained cameramen and technicians. He will dress his whole team in green trousers and white blazers, and provide motorized scooters to zip them about the grounds at Wembley. Knight himself will direct the whole business from a control booth just below the royal box-dangling his crews at the ends of eight miles of telephone line. This special telephone exchange, will be officially known as "Corinthian," already unofficially shortened to Cor-Blimey...